send email with Gmail Python

Question

I am attempting to send an email, but I run into this error: smtplib.SMTPAuthenticationError: (534, b'5.7.9 Application-specific password required. Learn more at\n5.7.9 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=InvalidSecondFactor d2sm13023190qkl.98 - gsmtp')

In the web URL i dont see anything super useful, would anyone have any tips? For SO purposes I left the email account passwords as test versus sharing my person info..

import smtplib
import ssl


# User configuration
sender_email = '[email protected]'
receiver_email = '[email protected]'
password = 'test'



# Email text
email_body = '''
    This is a test email sent by Python. Isn't that cool?
'''

# Creating a SMTP session | use 587 with TLS, 465 SSL and 25
server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
# Encrypts the email
context = ssl.create_default_context()
server.starttls(context=context)
# We log in into our Google account
server.login(sender_email, password)
# Sending email from sender, to receiver with the email body
server.sendmail(sender_email, receiver_email, email_body)
print('Email sent!')

print('Closing the server...')
server.quit()

"Application-specific password required" – do you have one? — mkrieger1
– mkrieger1, Commented Mar 31, 2020 at 17:44
i runned the example in this page in my gmail account and it worked: julien.danjou.info/… — Jasar Orion
– Jasar Orion, Commented Mar 31, 2020 at 17:47
currently Gmail is more restricted then other mail servers and every application needs own password to access mails. — furas
– furas, Commented Mar 31, 2020 at 18:29

ŁeZard · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-31 18:09:11Z

I tried my best... I think this should work!

import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart

email = "[email protected]" # the email where you sent the email
password = "yourPassword"
send_to_email = "[email protected]" # for whom
subject = "Gmail"
message = "This is a test email sent by Python. Isn't that cool?!"

msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg["From"] = email
msg["To"] = send_to_email
msg["Subject"] = subject

msg.attach(MIMEText(message, 'plain'))

server = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
server.starttls()
server.login(email, password)
text = msg.as_string()
server.sendmail(email, send_to_email, text)
server.quit()

Syb · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-31 17:49:06Z

1

You must allow the "Less secure apps" in Google configurations.

Here is the link of another thread about it : Link

answered Mar 31, 2020 at 17:49

Syb

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Sagar Dawda Over a year ago

This feature seems to be deprecated now. Google wont allow less secure apps.

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